Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How are sports injuries managed and classified?
- Ways to classify sports injuries
- Direct and Indirect
- Direct = external force
(tackle)
- Indirect = intrinsic force
(torn ligament - sprinting)
- Soft and Hard Tissue
- Soft = everything but bone and teeth
- Hard = bone and teeth
- Overuse
- Overuse of a specific
body region
- running on hard surfaces
(shin splints)
- Soft Tissue Injuries
- Tears,sprains and contusions
- tears = tissue stretched or
severed
- sprains = streching
or tearing a ligament
- strains = muscle or
tendon is streched
- Skin abrasions, lacerations,
blisters
- abrasions = scraped skin on
hard surface
- laceration = irregular tear of flesh
- blisters = collection of fluid
under skin
- Inflammatory response
- phase 1 = inflammatory stage
- phase 2 = repair stage
- phase 3 = remodeling stage
- Hard tissue injuries
- Fractures
- Chip or crack in bone
- Dislocation
- Displacement of bone at
a joint
- TOTAPS
- Observe
- Any signs of
swelling or
deformity
- Touch
- pinpoint area of
pain (gently)
- Active Movement
- joint movements
(flexion + extension)
- Passive Movement
- Range of movements
(any pain or instability)
- Skill
- Peform a game skill
- Talk
- What happened